GREEN DOLPHIN STREET belongs to that special class of Hollywood spectacle that really wanted to be the next GONE WITH THE WIND. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, these films tended to be big historical epics, with big battles, big emotions, and big run-times. GREEN DOLPHIN STREET fares pretty well in this category: though the visual effects have aged poorly and the melodrama gets almost farcical at points, good acting and an interesting metaphysical bent regarding the possibility of fate within the love square plot elevate the film. Though Lana Turner is the one in the spotlight, and to be fair she does a good enough job as an ambitious and intelligent woman forced to live through the men in her life due to Victorian sexism, it's Donna Reed as her tormented sister and Van Heflin as a taciturn fugitive who steal the show.
Review of Green Dolphin Street
